Curriculum Vitae - Justus Christiaan Roux Title / Name Prof Justus Christiaan Roux Qualifications BA (1967) BA Hons (African languages) (1968) MA (African languages) (1972) Potchefstroom University for CHE DLitt (African languages/General Linguistics) (1979) Stellenbosch University Publications 41 previous articles; 46 conference proceedings; 1 book publication as co-author; 6 chapters in books; 9 Scientific reports (As from 2009) 2009 The representation of vowel duration in Civili dictionaries. Lexikos 19, 197-206 (Co-author: HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza) 2009 Perceived duration in vowel-length based Civili minimal pairs. South African Journal of African Languages 29 (2): 216-226 (Co-author: HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza) 2010 Incorporating speech synthesis in the development of a mobile platform for e-learning, Proceedings of LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta, pp 1507-1510. (Co-authors, P Scholtz, D Klop, C Povlsen, B Jongejan, A Magnusdottir) (http://www.lrecconf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/index.html) 2010 Speech Synthesis in the mobile user interface. SSW7: The 7th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Kyoto, Japan, pp 328-331. (Co-authors, P Scholtz & J du Toit) (http://ssw7.org/doc/ssw7_proceedings_rev.pdf) 2011 Perceived vowel duration in Civili: Minimal pairs and the effect of post-vocalic voicing, Proceedings of 17th International Conference for Phonetic Sciences (co-author HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza) 2013 Electronic dictionaries for speech recognition, for its applications and for speech synthesis. Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography: Recent Developments with Focus on Electronic and Computational Lexicography. (Eds RH Gouws, U Heid, W Schweikard HE Wiegand): 1091-1096. De Gruyter Mouton. http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/175228 Master / Doctoral studies supervised (completed) 19 MA and 4 DLitt students completed. Special awards / recognition /positions Research and travel grants Research and travel grants raised in excess of ZAR35 million. Research Stipends as Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany): 1980,1987 1994. Awards Recipient of Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research, University of Stellenbosch. (1999) Recipient of Certificate of Acknowledgement of Leadership in International Research from Vice-Chancellor, North-West University (2010) Awarded life membership of the International Phonetics Association (IPA) Recipient of Language science and language technology in Africa: A Festschrift for Justus C. Roux. Stellenbosch: SUN Press. 362 pages. NdingaKoumba-Binza, H.S. & S.E. Bosch. (Eds). Editorial Boards Member of editorial committee of Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA). 1998- present. Member of editorial board of Phonetica 2014- present. Ombudsman: South African Journal of African Languages, 2007 – present. National and international positions Chairperson of the South African Technical Committee for the Standardisation of Terminology and other resources SABS TC 37. 20032006; including Member of South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of ISO TC37 (Warsaw, Poland, 2005) Head of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of ISO TC37 (Beijing, China, 2006.) Member of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of ISO TC 37 (Provo, USA, 2007) Head of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of ISO TC37 (Dublin, Ireland, 2010) Member of Steering Committee for Language and Information Technology (L&IT) development in South Africa. Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST) and the Pan South African Language Board. (PANSALB). 2000 Co-ordinator of the Advisory Panel on Human Language Technology Development in South Africa, appointed by the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. 2001 – 2002. Member of the Steering Committee for Human Language Technologies Implementation appointed by the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. 2003 – (2009). Member of HLT Expert Panel (HLTEP) nominated by the Minister of the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) for a period of five years to assist DAC in deploying HLT Research and Development projects in South Africa. (2009 – 2014) Member of Selection Committee of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) on Modern Languages, Arts and Information Science, responsible for adjudication of national research and travel grants: 1989, 1990. Professional organisations Member of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA): since 1980 in various capacitiesChairperson, Western Cape chapter of ALASA: 1980, 1984-1988. Adjudicator for ALASA prizes for various publishers, 1986 Member of the Board and Executive of ALASA: 1986-1989, 1995-1997 Secretary to the National Executive of ALASA 1995-1997. Member of the Permanent Council for the Organisation of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2007 – present. Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA); 2000- and Member of the International Affairs Committee of ISCA as well as Co-ordinator of the ISCA Sub-committee on Africa. 2006-2009 Management member of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA). 2000- present and Representative for Africa. Invited member to UNESCO Expert Panel for establishing a Cyber Network for Language Learning, Beijing, China (March 2009) and member of final report drafting team, Shanghai (May 2009). Invited as South African International Contact Point for the FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resources Network) project funded by the European Commission, France / Italy. (2010) Invited evaluator by the Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie) for the final evaluation of the Dutch-Flemish HLT-program (STEVIN) (March, 2010). Member of the International Advisory Board of CLARIN EU network project (2010-). Member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf). Former B2/C1 rated researcher at the National Research Foundation (NRF) Current / Previous affiliation 2011-2014 Director of the Research Unit for Languages and Literature, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University (contract). 1969-1971: Junior Lecturer, Potchefstroom University for CHE 1972-2009: Various academic positions at the University of Stellenbosch, inter alia as professor in African languages, vice-dean (Faculty of Arts) and director of two interdisciplinary research entities related to language and speech technologies.. Contact details Justus.roux@nwu.ac.za (+27) 18 299 1490